Copeland, with his Mr. Rogers look (just because Gates and Balmer dress that way), strikes me as kind of myopic idiot. We all work in a vast variety of...

Clothes may not affect your performance, but they most certainly affect how your performance is judged by others. In some ways we are all like herd animals in which...

I believe I know what is going on finally. I am the developer and not the DBA. Our DBA has checked and said no one else was in...

No it does not have a WITH (NOLOCK) hint.

However, I have found an old "Transact-SQL User's Guide" entry that states: "You can use select into on a permanent table only...

YES! That is why it is so crazy! Something somewhere has to be deleting the table data soon after its creation leaving the empty table intact and we...

Trick Question! 60% of respondents didn't answer uNicode because they are ignorant of the true meaning. Many of SQL ServerCentral.com own articles and forum posts directly refer to...

I tend to agree with Phil and yet disagree. I feel initial development should start out small in a concept mode using isolated data in a strictly development only...

I agree with Jeff. Home and office should not be mixed. However this does not preclude working from home. It just means either your company provides you...

I am very interested in follow-on article about the "Insert Instead of" trigger on the view. We are just beginning a massive project to normalize our databases while creating...

I have to agree with Isaac's Three Rules, . . ., er Jeff's. Especially his "No Access" sub-rule . . . and I am developer, not a DBA! ...

It all matters with what the TEAM is comfortable in doing. Implementing 36 changes a week may seem overly ambitious and possibly nerve racking, If it is doable for...

Possibly you did not miss your mark. However, you probably should have used the other picture of Prometheus being chained to rock as punishment, having his liver being eaten...

Interesting! I cut my teeth using Paradox and ObjectPAL. In fact, I had always considered ObjectPAL one of the best languages ever. Oracle had tried to purchase...

Without having much in way of a formalized change management system and in a diverse shop with multiple, yet related, database servers and databases, we have a definite need to...

This seems to be configuration specific. I don't know who originally set up my SQL Server Management Studio on my PC, but when I am in a query and...